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Lonita Lawrence, KS Jun 28, 2019

Hello: I am new here and I have a question... a couple of days ago I watered my potted plants with a mixture of 1 TBS Epsom salt and 1 Gal water... AFTER I had watered them I noticed that the Epsom salt ALSO had menthol in it... is this going to kill my plants (some of them are not looking so good anymore) these are all being transplanted into my new flower bed that is being put in next week... IF this mixture is going to hurt them is there anything I can do to save them?

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Kell San Leandro, CA(Zone 9b) Jun 28, 2019

I found this article which discusses Listerine (which has menthol in it) on plants.
https://www.hunker.com/12560070/will-listerine-harm-garden-plants


If you think it is harming them, when they start drying out, flush the plants well with water to try to wash any residual out.

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Kell San Leandro, CA(Zone 9b) Jun 28, 2019

I probably should have asked you what is troubling you about your plants post the epsom salt treatment. I would be afraid it would burn the new baby roots in starter plants. Again flushing the soil might help.

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Lonita Lawrence, KS Jun 29, 2019

I think I am just being paranoid... it has been around 100 degrees here the last couple of days... and while I have been watering them daily I have not been soaking them... today I will start giving them all a good soak daily...

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